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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Neil Tennant |
ISBN: | 0199251606 9780199251605 0198237170 9780198237174 |
OCLC Number: | 642510289 |
Notes: | Índice. |
Description: | XVII, 465 p. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1: Introduction ; 2: The Realism Debate ; 3: Irrealism ; 4: Against Meaning Skepticism ; 5: Avoiding Strict Finitism ; 6: Meaning as Graspable ; 7: Truth as Knowable ; 8: Analyticity and Syntheticity ; 9: Finding the Right Logic ; 10: Cognitive Significance Regained ; 11: Defeasibility and Constructive Falsifiability |
Responsibility: | Neil Tennant. |
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a new major and systematic monograph on the realism debate, written by a very skillful and sophisticated defender of anti-realism ... very lucidly written, and the main arguments are well signposted, presented, and summarized ... a very advanced work. * Tadeusz Szubka, Albert E. Gunn and Staff * addresses a number of important issues in contemporary philosophy, and the reader has much to gain from a careful study of the development. Few stones are left unturned. * Stewart Shapiro, Mathematical Reviews * Neil Tennant "tames the True" by showing that nothing worth wanting as true in mathematics or natural science ranges beyond the limits of human knowledge. Any thing worthy of the name true in mathematics or natural science is in principle knowable ... Chapters 2 and 3 of Tennant's book make a significant contribution with their careful analyses of philosophical terms such as `realism', `anti-realism', and `irrealism' ... Those who work in these areas need to studyall of Tennant's book for it moves the arguments and issues significantly forward. The book offers a comprehensive philosophy of mathematics and natural science * Zentralblatt f"ur Mathematik * Read more...

